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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Valdes suffers knee injury agony as keeper's Barca career looks to have ended!

Victor valdes is expected to leave Bercelona at the end of this season, now Victor Valdes’ Barcelona career is
almost certainly over after the goalkeeper sustained a serious knee
injury against Celta Vigo on Wednesday night.The
Spaniard will need surgery after damaging his anterior cruciate
ligament as he jumped to collect a loose ball and landed badly.Valdes was taken off on a stretcher in the 23rd minute and was in great pain as he was removed from the pitch.

Barcelona's official website
released a statement saying: 'Victor Valdes suffered an ACL tear on 22
minutes after saving a free kick from Augusto.'The club's medical services confirm that he will need surgery. The keeper
fell awkwardly on his right leg, forcing him to ask to be substituted.'The
goalkeeper, who joined the club at just 10 years old and made his debut
in 2002, was taken to hospital as the game progressed.Barcelona
ran out 3-0 winners but their bid to win La Liga, the Champions League
and the Copa del Rey has been dented by Valdes’s injury.He
will be out for several months and it is known that he will leave
Barcelona at the end of the season when his contract runs out. After the game Neymar said: 'We are very sad for our team-mate.' Tata Martino did not want to speculate
at the extent of the injury. He said: 'Valdes's injury is a big blow.
Thought we had already had all our bad luck this season, but I was
wrong. The team will keep going.'Barcelona
are allowed to sign a goalkeeper on emergency loan from another La Liga
side, but Martino will not take up the option.'We
won't sign a goalkeeper. We will finish the season with this group,'
Martino said. 'I am not one to believe in bad luck, but at this stage of
the season I thought everything that was to happen had already
occurred. I was wrong.'It's a big blow but this team has rolled with punches for some time now and we will pull through this.'